

These included Flippity and Flop, Willoughby Wren, and Tito and His Burrito. Like most studios, the Screen Gems studio had several established characters on their roster.
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Animators, directors, and writers at the series included people such as Art Davis, Sid Marcus, Bob Wickersham, and, during its latter period, Bob Clampett. Cartoons (previously Leon Schlesinger Productions). After Tashlin's short stay came Dave Fleischer, formerly of the Fleischer Studios, and after several of his successors came Ray Katz and Henry Binder from Warner Bros. After this, Columbia decided to "clean house" by ousting the bulk of the staff (including Winkler) and hiring creative cartoonist, Frank Tashlin. Jimmy Bronis, Mintz's production manager became the studio head, but was shortly replaced by Mintz's brother-in-law, George Winkler. The name was derived from an early Columbia Pictures slogan, "Gems of the Screen", itself a takeoff on the song "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean". Under new management, the studio assumed a new name, Screen Gems. When Mintz became indebted to Columbia in 1939, he ended up selling his studio to them. Rhapsody animated film shorts through Columbia Pictures. 3 Specialty feature film studio, 1999–presentįor an entire decade, Charles Mintz distributed his Krazy Kat, Scrappy, and Color.
